Drop-light attachment.



G.F.W}BUSCH. DROP LIGHT ATTACHMENT. APPLIUATION FILED MAn.1s,1914.

1 l l l ly t l l l Patented July 14, 1914.

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DROP-LIGHT ATTACHMENT.

Specification of LettersPatent. Appucation'lea'riarh213, 51914. -fseriainojszasm y Patented July 14,1914.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CARL F. W.'BUsoH, a citizen of theUnited States of America, and resident of Bellaire, county of Belmont, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements yin Drop-Light Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates broadly to gaslighting fixtures, and specifically to a droplight attachment.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and novel means for attaching the fiexible tubes of drop-lights to the chandeliers or bracket arms commonly employed.

A further object is to provide attaching means for drop-lights which does not require that the usual lamp-shade and the tubular supporting member therefor be permanently removed,

As is well known, the removal of the usual inverted gas lamp, with its shade, from a chandelier or cluster-bracket, as is required when a drop-light is attached in the usual manner, mars the appearance of such chandelier or bracket. It is therefore an object of the present invention to avoid the objection just referred to.

In describing the invention in detail, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a central section of a shade and shade-supporting member of a common type, illustrating the application of my invention Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the nipple.

Referring to said drawings, in which like designating characters distinguish like parts throughout the several views- 1 indicates the arm of an ordinary gas-fixture, as a chandelier or bracket, the same terminating in a vertically disposed threaded stem 2; 3 indicates a tubular U-shaped supporting member for lamps of inverted-mantle type, and 4 a shade, all said elements being of a well-known or common form.

Instead of the means or mounting usually employed for attaching the supporting member 3, I provide a nipple 5 having an in ternally threaded socket 6 in its lower end adapted for the reception of the stem 2 of the arm 1, and provided with an externally threaded portion 7 adapted to receive thereon the lower interiorly threaded end of a sleeve 8 which is preferably formed of thin sheet brass and which is adapted to seat within the end of said supporting member 3 for supporting the latter. The bell 9 usually employed in connection with such fixtures may be employed, as shown, or may be omitted, if preferred. Formed integral with the nipple 5 at its upper end is a centrally disposed stem 10 of reduced size which is 'adapted to have closely fitted thereon the end of a flexible droplight tube 11 which has been directed through the tubular supporting member 3, said end being preferably embraced by a metal thimble 12 whereby undue stretching or expansion of said end is prevented. A bore 13 leads vertically through the body of the nipple 5 and stem 10, communicating at one end with the bore 14 in the stem 2 of arm 1, and at the other end with the passage 15 through the droplight tube.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the attachment of the drop-light tube is effected through the shade t and tubular shade supporting member 3 and without the permanent removal of said elements from association with the arm 1.

What is claimedvis- 1. A drop-light attachment comprising, in combination, the arm of a gas iiXturea nipple mounted vertically on said arm, a sleeve mounted on said nipple, a curved tubular shade-supporting member mounted on said sleeve, and a drop-light tube directed tllirough said tube and connected to said nip- 2. A drop-light attachment comprising, in combination, the arm of a gas fixture, a nipple mounted vertically on said arm, a sleeve mounted on said nipple, a curved tubular shade-supporting member mounted on said sleeve7 and a drop-light tube directed through said tube and connected to said nipple, said nipple having a stem over which the end of said tube is fitted.

3. A drop-light attachment comprising, in combination, the arm of a gas fixture, a nipple mounted vertically on said arm, and tube being projected through said tubular having.exteriory sorew threads thereon, an member. v 10 integral! upright stein provided on saidinip'- l'ntestimony whereof@ aEX my signature ple, a sleeve having its lower end mounted presence of two subscribing witnesses.

5 on said threads, a"`cu1' veolgA tubularshade-kf CARL F. W. BUSCH. supporting member disposed upon the uppei` Witnesses: end of said sleeve, and a drop=1`i`ght tube DUNLAP, having its end fitted upon said stem, said' W. F. KEEFER.

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